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EDUCATION
- 2020MFA, Photography (opens in a new tab)Yale School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut
- 2013BFA, Photography (opens in a new tab)Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, Michigan
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
- 2022
- 2022
- 2022
- 2022
- 2022
- 2021
- 2020
- 2020Richard Benson PrizeYale School of Art
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2024No Content Warning (opens in a new tab)ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, Los Angeles
- 2022Fire Island Pines (opens in a new tab)BOFFO Artist Residency Exhibition, Fire Island Pines
- 2021Notions of Care (opens in a new tab)Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU, Miami
- 2015The Secret Society of Disabled PeopleDisArt Festival, Grand Rapids
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2026Voices Embodied: Prognostication (opens in a new tab)Design Museum of Chicago
- 2025Queer Lens: A History of Photography (opens in a new tab)J. Paul Getty Museum
- 2025DON'T LOOK NOW: A Defense of Free Expression (opens in a new tab)Art at a Time Like This
- 2025
- 2024I'm Sorry, This Space Is Reserved (opens in a new tab)Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen
- 2023Disrupt and Resist (opens in a new tab)Mason Exhibitions
- 2022PURE JOY1969 Gallery
- 2022Variance (opens in a new tab)RISD Museum
- 2021Reframing History / 35 Chapters (opens in a new tab)PhotoVogue Festival
- 2019-2020Touching History: Stonewall 50 (opens in a new tab)Palm Springs Art Museum
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
- Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (opens in a new tab)New York, New York
- RISD Museum (opens in a new tab)Providence, Rhode Island
- ONE Archives at the USC Libraries (opens in a new tab)Los Angeles, California
RESIDENCIES & COMMISSIONS
- 2023
- 2022
- 2021-2022
- 2019
TALKS & TEACHING
- 2026Visiting Artist Lecture (opens in a new tab)Maine College of Art & Design
- 2026Cruising from a Crip Perspective (opens in a new tab)No Limits! Art Castle, Amsterdam
- 2025Guest Lecture (opens in a new tab)University of Pennsylvania
- 2024Visiting Artist Lecture (opens in a new tab)Yale School of Art
- 2024
- 2021-2023Lecturer, Photography (opens in a new tab)University of Miami
- 2018-2020Teaching Assistant, Photography (opens in a new tab)Yale School of Art
SELECTED PRESS
- 2025Momus (opens in a new tab)For Pleasure and Pictures
- 2025Getty Publications (opens in a new tab)Queer Lens: A History of Photography
- 2025CARLA (opens in a new tab)Robert Andy Coombs at ONE Archives
- 2025Aftenposten (opens in a new tab)Kunsten hans sprenger grenser
- 2024LAist (opens in a new tab)Robert Andy Coombs: No Content Warning
- 2024Hyperallergic (opens in a new tab)A Truck Exhibition on Bodily Autonomy Is Traveling Cross Country
- 2022The Art Newspaper (opens in a new tab)Censorship on social media
- 2021
- 2021Cultured Magazine (opens in a new tab)Robert Andy Coombs Captures the Lust of Life
- 2021Talk Art Podcast (opens in a new tab)Robert Andy Coombs
- 2021The Advocate (opens in a new tab)What Are Your Preconceptions of Disability and Sexuality?
- 2020
- 2020